workplace-stories

'If the company's holding your car, get taxis everywhere': Boss lets employee take petty revenge on secretary who refuses to give them back their vehicle

Remy Millisky

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Worker forced to attend boring training, uses instructor's lesson against them: '[He said] I was being unreasonable'

Brad Dickson

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Boss dangles $250 gift card to employee he fired if he refers new potential employees: 'Every eligible candidate you refer [...] earns you an entry [to] receive a $250 Amazon gift card'

Ben Weiss

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Manager demands to see no more reports of hourly workers arriving late, employee cleverly complies by requesting HR stop sending attendance reports to manager altogether

Sienna Varady

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'At this point... we’re making pure scrap': Industrial engineer begs to boss not to run trial with sticky materials, boss insists and costs company thousands

Remy Millisky

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'He came into the job knowing absolutely zero about what we did': Clueless boss causes entire department to be terminated

Remy Millisky

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Cheapskate CEO enforces new coffee policy, employee gets payback at company workshop with his own rule: 'You can't have coffee!'

Ben Weiss

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‘Don’t contact me again': Boss demands unpaid intern to work extra hours, intern quits on the spot and blocks boss's number

Bar Mor Hazut

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'He deleted the entire company's website by accident': 20+ Foolish managers whose employees roll their eyes at their antics

Remy Millisky

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Guy gets passed over for a promised promotion in favor of manager's buddy: 'SAY WHAT BRUH?!'

Ben Weiss

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‘I handed you my two weeks' notice… two weeks ago': Boss schedules employee to work even after they quit their job, resulting in a dispute when they don't show up

Bar Mor Hazut

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CEO revokes new employees' job contract, costs himself millions: 'He had a "bad feeling" about me'

Remy Millisky

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IT worker charges 16 hours to 2 hour job when management instates new painstaking time-logging system: '[The] client refused to pay'

Brad Dickson

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'You will respect me': 47-year-old Nurse Karen throws tantrum at younger coworker, embarrasses herself in front of a patient

Ben Weiss

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Worker denied 2 days of leave because of strict policy, follows same policy and gets a month off instead: 'It was a great month'

Brad Dickson

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‘I'm done': Overworked employee finds out that the job they've been hired to do doesn't exist, boss was using them to do her own job

Bar Mor Hazut

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